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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Litter Moths (Herminiinae) » Renia » Speckled Renia Moth - Hodges#8386 (Renia adspergillus)

Species Renia adspergillus - Speckled Renia Moth - Hodges#8386

Classification · Hodges Number · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Litter moth? - Renia adspergillus - female

Triangular Moth on Cliff - Renia adspergillus - female

Speckled Renia Moth #3 - Renia adspergillus - female

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Noctuoidea (Owlet Moths and kin)

Family Erebidae

Subfamily Herminiinae (Litter Moths)

Genus Renia

Species adspergillus (Speckled Renia Moth - Hodges#8386)

Hodges Number

8386

Other Common Names

The Gray Renia

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Renia adspergillus (Bosc, [1800])

Crambus adspergillus Bosc, [1800]

Renia larvalis Grote, 1872

Renia restrictalis Grote, 1872

Size

Wingspan: ♂ 30mm, ♀ 27 (spring), ♂ 25mm, ♀ 23 (summer) (Forbes, 1954); 32-34mm (larvalis Grote, 1872); 27-28mm (restrictalis Grote, 1872).

Identification

Refer to the guide on the info page for the genus.

Range

eastern North America

Quebec to Michigan south to Louisiana and Florida

See Also

Renia salusalis, which has shorter palps on the male.

Print References

Bosc, [1800]. Bulletin des sciences, par la Société Philomathique. Paris. 2(39): 114.

Forbes, 1954: 405. (1) (larvalis)

Grote, A.R., 1872. Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 4: 26. (larvalis, restrictalis)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - species page with photographs of living and pinned adults.

BOLD - species account with photographs of pinned adults and DNA sequences.

Works Cited

1.	Lepidoptera of New York and Neighboring States, Part III [Noctuidae] William T. M. Forbes . 1954. Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station Memoir: Number 329: 1-433.

Contributed by Mike Boone on 16 July, 2005 - 2:30pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Tony-2, Maury Heiman, Nick Block, Blocky
Last updated 13 July, 2020 - 8:29pm

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